The 80th anniversary of the famous 1934 S.S. Morro Castle maritime disaster [shown at top] and the 160th anniversary of the 1854 New Era disaster will be commemorated at ceremonies in September, according to a news release from the Asbury Park Historical Society. The New Era disaster occurred exactly 80 years prior to the Morro […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold a ceremony Sunday to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the S.S. Morro Castle disaster. The ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. in front of the Morro Castle monument just south of the entrance to the Paramount Theater, according to a press release from the Asbury Park Historical […]

A beachfront search for the lost New Era monument yielded no results this weekend, and the Asbury Park Historical Society [APHS] is looking at replicating the 19th-century artifact. Asbury Park’s founder, James A. Bradley, erected the monument to the New Era shipwreck in around 1893, APHS member Don Stine said. The year after its installation, […]